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ˈscene-shifter
One who shifts and arranges the scenes during the performance of a play.
1752Johnson Adventurer No. 3 ⁋9 Half a dozen scene-shifters. 1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. xcvii, The scene-shifter's whistle. 1887‘Edna Lyall’ Knt.-Errant (1889) 144 Behind the scenes the very scene-shifters and carpenters were eager to congratulate him. 1908[see , legit]. 1957L. Durrell Justine ii. 102 Quick as a scene-shifter the station packs away advertisement after advertisement. 1978Lancashire Life Apr. 35/3 A saviour came in the shape of little Alfie Gee—part-time electrician and scene-shifter... ‘Shuffle off the stage sideways,’ he whispered, ‘and don't drop it, man.’
fig.1903Ld. R. Gower Rec. & Remin. 92 When once the Great Scene-Shifter has made his final call, which none can disobey.
So ˈscene-shifting vbl. n.
1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 212 The..mechanical aids of science and scene-shifting. 1882Macm. Mag. XLVI. 330/2 The unwonted silence of the scene-shifting. |